Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 - User Guide User Manual
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Table of contents
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Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................6
1.1
What is Acronis® Migrate Easy? ............................................................................. 6
Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes!............................................................................ 6
Upgrading Has Never Been Easier or Safer! .......................................................................... 6
Acronis Migrate Easy key features: ...................................................................................... 6
Supported operating systems .............................................................................................. 6
Supported file systems ....................................................................................................... 6
Navigating the Guide.......................................................................................................... 7
1.2
Software usage terms and conditions ....................................................................... 7
1.3
Technical Support ................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER 1. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION ........................................................9
1.1
Bundle contents...................................................................................................... 9
1.2
System requirements .............................................................................................. 9
1.3
Acronis Migrate Easy installation .............................................................................. 9
1.4
Running Acronis Migrate Easy ................................................................................ 10
1.5
Removing the program.......................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER 2. GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION..................................................11
2.1
Main program window........................................................................................... 11
CHAPTER 3. TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK ..................................13
3.1
General information .............................................................................................. 13
3.2
Security ............................................................................................................... 14
3.3
Executing transfers ............................................................................................... 14
3.4
Cloning with manual partitioning ............................................................................ 21
CHAPTER 4. ADDING A NEW HARD DISK...............................................................23
4.1
Selecting a hard disk............................................................................................. 23
4.2
Creating a new partition ........................................................................................ 24
4.3
Selecting the file system type ................................................................................ 24
4.4
Selecting the partition type.................................................................................... 24
4.5
Disk add script...................................................................................................... 25
APPENDIX A. HARD DISKS AND BIOS SETUP ........................................................27
A.1
Installing hard disks in computers .......................................................................... 27
A.1.1
Installing a hard disk, general scheme.................................................................... 27
A.1.2
Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable ......................................................... 28
A.1.3
Installation modes, jumpers................................................................................... 29
A.2
BIOS ................................................................................................................... 30
A.2.1
Setup utility ......................................................................................................... 30
A.2.2
Standard CMOS setup menu .................................................................................. 30
A.2.3
Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu ........................................... 32
A.2.4
AwardBIOS .......................................................................................................... 33
A.2.5
Hard disk initialization errors.................................................................................. 37
APPENDIX B. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS.....................................................38
B.1
Hard disk partitions............................................................................................... 38
B.2
File systems ......................................................................................................... 38
B.2.1
FAT16.................................................................................................................. 39
B.2.2
FAT32.................................................................................................................. 39
B.2.3
NTFS ................................................................................................................... 39
B.2.4
Linux Ext2............................................................................................................ 40
B.2.5
Linux Ext3............................................................................................................ 40